Recently the Design Lab students prototyped this exhibition at the Web Directions South conference at the Darling Harbour Exhibition & Convention Centre.

All images are courtesy and copyright of Web Directions 2011.

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This prototype exhibition will set the scene for the Verge Gallery exhibition of the End of Year Showcase for the Design Lab at the University of Sydney.

Attract::Relate::Sustain will focus on creative technologies. It's exhibition design will encourage the playful and engaging projects that often take on the form of interaction and object design resulting in artworks, physically built devices, and robots.

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The preliminary exhibition theme will be interconnectivity, and the programming, coding, model-making and aesthetics that comprises contemporary interaction design. The notion of 'daisy-chains' will be at the forefront on this interconnectivity, both in the form of a large mechanical device made up of independent machines; but also as an installation technique, in terms connecting the machines representative of a research facility's theoretical output and the lecturer's who inspire and guide it (with an emphasis on the links between the students and their mentors). To support this metaphor, along with the larger device, there will be projected films, touch tables, the SmartSlab interactive works from URAP; along with historical and iterative artefacts from previous prototypes.